Drones attack Kyiv, Moscow
Ukraine’s drones appear to have reached Moscow, 1,000 kilometers away
Ukraine’s military shot down dozens of bomb drones that attacked the capital and Kyiv region overnight after repelling Russian missiles that rained on the city Monday morning.
Russian authorities also reported drones attacking Moscow injuring two people but all of it were destroyed.
“Between 11:30 p.m. and 4:30 a.m., Russian occupation troops attacked Ukraine” with 31 Shahed-136/131 drones, of which 29 were downed “almost all of them near the capital and in the Kyiv skies,” the Ukrainian air force said Tuesday on social media.
Ukraine’s general staff said late Monday that 40 cruise missiles and 38 “attacking UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles)” had been launched, almost all of which were downed, from Sunday to early Monday.
The barrage of Russian missiles on Kyiv Monday morning sent 41,000 people running to subway stations for cover.
“A total of 11 missiles were fired: ‘Iskander-M’ and ‘Iskander-K’ from a northerly direction,” Ukraine’s armed forces chief Valery Zaluzhny said, adding: “All the targets were destroyed by air defenses.”
Agence France-Presse journalists heard at least 10 explosions from around 11:10 a.m. local time in Kyiv, starting just a few minutes after an air raid warning sounded.
One man was injured and hospitalized in the attack.
AFP reporters saw people running for shelter in a metro station in central Kyiv as volleys of explosions were heard.
City authorities said 41,000 people hid in the subway.
Russia also shelled a small town in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, killing one woman, local authorities said.
A 61-year-old man was also killed by shelling in the southern Kherson region.
In the western region of Khmelnytsky, Russian forces struck an airfield that Ukrainian authorities said disabled five aircraft.
City authorities said 41,000 people hid in the subway.
Meanwhile, Russia’s defense ministry accused Ukraine on Tuesday of a “terrorist attack,” saying it had intercepted all of the eight Ukrainian drones aimed at Moscow.
“This morning, at dawn, a drone attack caused minor damage to several buildings. All the city’s emergency services are on the scene... no one has been seriously injured so far,” Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.
However, in Belgorod region, authorities said Ukrainian shelling killed one person in Grafovka village.
The Belgorod region has seen nearly daily attacks in recent days and last week was the scene of a dramatic incursion from Ukraine.